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  • Class of 2022: Rachel McNamara

    McNamara will join UVA Engineering Assistant Professor Ji Ma's additive manufacturing research group to earn her Ph.D.

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  • Alum Leland Melvin Has the Right Stuff

    Former NFL athlete and NASA astronaut inspires community crowd at film screening.

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  • Transforming Lives: PureMadi's Innovative Approach to Clean Water in South Africa

    Founder and civil engineering professor James Smith reflects on how UVA-born company PureMadi has grown and where it could go.

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  • Photos: "The Space Race" Screening

    UVA Engineering welcomed astronaut and alum Leland Melvin to Grounds on Friday, January 19, for a screening of his new National Geographic documentary "The Space Race." 

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  • UVA Engineering’s Jack Stankovic Receives IEEE Medal

    Stankovic has earned one of the IEEE’s highest honors for his work in the theory of real-time and resource-constrained, distributed systems and the practice of cyber-physical and health systems.

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  • The Conversation: Buildings Left Standing in Turkey Offer Design Guidance for Future Earthquake-Resilient Construction

    Civil engineering associate professor and resilient building design expert Osman Osbulut says we can save lives and livelihoods in his op-ed about future earthquake-resilient construction.

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  • Space for Us All: UVA Alumnus and Astronaut Leland Melvin Empowers Youth through STEM and Stories

    UVA Engineering hosts pre-release screening of "The Space Race," a documentary on Black astronauts, featuring Leland Melvin, inspiring STEM advocate and astronaut.

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  • UVA Computer Science Alum Chenyang Lu Named Director of Washington University’s AI for Health Institute

    Professor emeritus Jack Stankovic’s former Ph.D. advisee has added another title and award to an already impressive résumé.

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  • Using Machine Learning for Better Human Understanding of Disease Risk Factors and Treatments

    Machine learning changed health care by making sense of biological data, but for UVA Engineering’s Aidong Zhang, that’s only part of understanding disease risk and treatments.

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  • Engineering Foundations Students Reimagine Accessibility at UVA

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  • Racing to Learn

    UVA Engineering undergraduate students in Madhur Behl's CS4501 course showed off the results of their work this semester during the 2023 UVA F1tenth Autonomous Racing Grand Prix. 

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  • Year in Review: 2023 Chemical Engineering News Highlights

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